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Re: What movie did you last watch?

You make an interesting point that I would like to discuss. What is your definition of a chick flick? Anyone else? I have never really understood what it means to guys.

I know what a chick flick is not, it is not a gross out comedy (although was Bridesmaids a chick flick?) it is not an action movie, it is not a super hero movie, it is not a blood and gore horror movie or any kind of violent movie. But what about a drama like Lincoln - probably not.

Is s chick flick a romantic comedy? is it a tear-jerker? Silver Linings was a romantic comedy, but also a serious drama - that to me would qualify it as a chick flick. Although the major difference is perhaps it is really well done. So I tend to think a movie that is a romantic comedy and or a serious drama that isn't any good ia a chick flick but a well done movie in the same genre is not.

A chick flick is derogatory, I do know that.

A chick flick is whatever my girlfriend likes and I don't like

Bridemaids, Dirty Dancing, The Notebook, Safe Heaven(), Sex and the City(), Chick Flicks are movies that you always know how they are going to end, is always some stupid love history, some Chick flicks are well done (Pretty Woman) but others are just the same crap as the other ones.

Re: What movie did you last watch?

Watch the Chronicle Yesterday. Interesting Movie. I don't understand why they kill off the black kid though, just stupid writing. Would have been better to have them both trying to fight the demented cousin in the end.

Reminded me of Akira in the end, especially with him in the hospital and the one cousin yelling "ANDREWWW!!!!" ......."TETSUOOOOO!!!!" alll through out the final stand off.

Re: What movie did you last watch?

I went in without knowing anything about it and believe it or not in my entire life I have never seen the Wizard of Oz.

You've got to rent it sometime. My top ten all time movie list changes time to time but Wizard of Oz always makes it in there for me personally.

You know how hippos are made out to be sweet and silly, like big cows, but are actually extremely dangerous and can kill you with stunning brutality? The Pacers are the NBA's hippos....Matt Moore CBS Sports....

Re: What movie did you last watch?

Almost forgot..... Red Lights... Robert De Niro obviously needed some money.

You know how hippos are made out to be sweet and silly, like big cows, but are actually extremely dangerous and can kill you with stunning brutality? The Pacers are the NBA's hippos....Matt Moore CBS Sports....

Re: What movie did you last watch?

You make an interesting point that I would like to discuss. What is your definition of a chick flick? Anyone else? I have never really understood what it means to guys.

I know what a chick flick is not, it is not a gross out comedy (although was Bridesmaids a chick flick?) it is not an action movie, it is not a super hero movie, it is not a blood and gore horror movie or any kind of violent movie. But what about a drama like Lincoln - probably not.

Is s chick flick a romantic comedy? is it a tear-jerker? Silver Linings was a romantic comedy, but also a serious drama - that to me would qualify it as a chick flick. Although the major difference is perhaps it is really well done. So I tend to think a movie that is a romantic comedy and or a serious drama that isn't any good ia a chick flick but a well done movie in the same genre is not.

A chick flick is derogatory, I do know that.

Eh, I would categorize Bridesmaids as an indie dramedy with a Melissa McCarthy performance. SLP was a romantic comedy but relatively character driven and pretty subversive.

I think the main thing that makes a chick flick a chick flick is that the love story drives the plot, making it seem inevitable and thus trite and predictable. RomComs aren't necessarily chick flicks, of course, see 500 Days of Summer or Annie Hall. There's really either love drama (like Love Story, or more recently, the Nicholas Sparks ones) or love comedy (from City Lights to Some Like It Hot to Harry Met Sally, etc.).

It's called a chick flick because movie executives have pretty much only heard of four or five segments of the population, and the movies you're thinking of are for the 30 and 40-year-old women who only go to movies to cry. (Granted, that's not an insubstantial portion of moviegoers, and the ****** moniker is caused by both producers and consumers.) I think there are enought bad and uninteresting movies that are formulaic and cliched that you don't necessarily have to separate them by gender but that's pretty how marketing for studios has worked for a long time now.

I don't really know what I expected, but don't waste time on GI Joe 2. The Rock, who I genuinely like even though he can't actually act, can't come close to making it passable.

Forgive my pissyness here but that movie pissed me off. The cobra soldiers were actually wearing US NAVY working uniforms. And then at the end of the movie they have a marine officer wearing an Army uniform. My friends and I in theater were like "well, that was a spit in the face." we are now developing a movie call Sailor Robert.

Re: What movie did you last watch?

GI Joe 2

It was an all right movie for a brainless action movie. I just wanted it to be better than the first one and that was easily done. Just seeing Snake Eyes running around dual uzis made me happy. I was glad I only paid 6 dollars for it, but it was a nice way to kill a few hours.

It was an all right movie for a brainless action movie. I just wanted it to be better than the first one and that was easily done. Just seeing Snake Eyes running around dual uzis made me happy. I was glad I only paid 6 dollars for it, but it was a nice way to kill a few hours.

The movie used US Navy uniforms as the uniforms for the cobra members then put a marine officer in an army uniform. I felt like I was growing a tumor.

Re: What movie did you last watch?

Evil Dead (2013)

Pretty well done, I guess. I think I may be at the end, or at least the beginning of the end, of watching movies like these. I feel "over it". I'm not scared, I'm barely ever startled, of course it's gross, and at some point it becomes, "Why am I watching?" I basically was just enjoying the filmmakers' execution of the art rather than getting into the movie itself. I wasn't bored.